Carlos Avery

Carlos Avery (1868–1930), was an American newspaper publisher and politician in the state of Minnesota. Avery is best remembered as a longtime chief of the Minnesota Game and Fish Commission and was named the first Commissioner of the Game and Fish Commission when that position was created in August 1915. He is the namesake of the Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area in that state.

Briefly serving as mayor of his hometown of Hutchinson, Minnesota, during the first decade of the 20th century, Avery was several times an unsuccessful candidate for high political office, losing in bids for the Minnesota State Senate in 1902, United States Congress in 1914, and for Governor of Minnesota in 1924, running as the nominee of the Democratic Party in each instance.